When Elon Musk bought Twitter in the spring of 2022, many progressives abandoned the Twitter platform and transferred to another social networking service, Bluesky. Like George Orwell’s “Party’s Ministry of Truth", progressives, by memory-holing themselves, soon forgot what debate required. What looked like an invincible weapon (cancel culture) turned out to just be another temporary advantage, writes Noah Smith, as reported by James Freeeman of the WSJ.
UPDATE 5.16.22: In a duo of recent tweets, Elon Musk discussed his plan to reduce "inadvertent" manipulation in Twitter's algorithms by making the site's...
Vasko Kohlmayer of LewRockwell.com writes (abridged):
There has been a great deal of speculation in connection with Elon Musk’s attempt to acquire Twitter. The interest...